We’ve arranged for a MIDI Live! Chat with some of the key people behind the MPE specification. The MIDI Live! event will happen on Saturday, May 26.

Here is the time of the event in various time zones.
10 am- Los Angeles
1 pm – New York
6 pm- London

It’s easy to log in to a MIDI Live! event using a one-click social sign on like your Facebook or Twitter account.

Developers who are interested in creating MPE hardware and software can hear directly from the people who worked on the spec and have already implemented it. There will also be discussions on new MPE checklists and test sequences being developed as well as ideas for an MPE logo program.

LinnStrument is an expressive electronic musical instrument with five dimensions of touch sensing. It is built with open-source hardware, the Arduino Due and runs open-source firmware. There are hundreds of playing cells and multi-color LEDs, making it ideal to discover embedded Arduino development with concrete musical and visual results.

This session introduces the Arduino development concepts, tie them back to the actual hardware, provide an overview of the main algorithms in the LinnStrument firmware that are responsible for the musical feel and explain valuable lessons that were learned during the development of the firmware.